Robert Rinder has labelled Jimmy Carr and the viewers at his Netflix particular who “clapped, whooped and cheered” over a joke he made concerning the Traveller group and the Holocaust, as “full incorrigible turds”.
In a widely-shared clip from the His Darkish Materials present, Carr joked concerning the horror of the Holocaust and “six million Jewish lives being misplaced” earlier than making a disparaging comment concerning the deaths of 1000’s of Travellers by the hands of the Nazis as a punchline.
Robert, who’s greatest often called TV’s Choose Rinder and is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, made his emotions clear throughout a panel dialogue concerning the hour-long particular on Discuss Radio on Friday.
“I’ve bought to say Jimmy Carr, I’m not going to repeat the joke, or anyone within the viewers who whooped and clapped at a joke concerning the genocide of Travellers and gypsies, you’re all, full incorrigible turds,” he stated.
In a tweet posted on Saturday, Robert stated the comic’s remark was “breathtakingly racist” and reiterated his dismay on the viewers’s response.
“Jimmy Carr’s “joke” suggesting the systematic genocide of gypsies through the Holocaust was a “good factor” is breathtakingly racist,” he tweeted.
“The really disturbing factor isn’t simply the gag, it’s that on listening to it, as a substitute of leaving, the viewers clapped, whooped and cheered in approval.”
In a second tweet, the previous Strictly star stated that “center class comedians can do irony and intelligent boundary pushing so it’s ‘okay’”.
“Let’s think about the response to this joke had it been filmed at a working males’s membership to a cheering whooping viewers,” he added.
Carr has obtained widespread criticism over the remarks, with requires Netflix to take away the joke and sparking petitions calling on him to apologise.
Roberts tweet got here after Tradition Secretary Nadine Dorries condemned the remarks throughout an interview on Saturday’s BBC Breakfast, suggesting that new legal guidelines would maintain to account streaming websites from airing jokes.
Dorries urged that sooner or later, new legal guidelines would “maintain Netflix to account” for such content material.
“We’re laws by way of the Media Invoice which might deliver into scope these feedback from different video on-demand streaming shops like Netflix,” she stated.
“So it’s fascinating that we’re already future laws to deliver into scope these form of feedback.”
The MP stated Carr’s feedback had been “abhorrent and so they simply shouldn’t be on tv”, but it surely was then put to her that in a tweet in 2017 she had claimed that “left-wing snowflakes are killing comedy”.
She stated: “Effectively, that’s not comedy.
“What Jimmy Carr did final evening is just not comedy. And you realize, I’m no angel on Twitter, no one is, however I simply wish to say that nothing I’ve ever placed on Twitter has been dangerous or abusive.
“However that final evening… Jimmy Carr’s feedback, nobody can name that, you realize, snowflake or wokeishness, that’s simply… it was simply appalling.”
Nadia Whittome, Labour MP for Nottingham East, has additionally urged Netflix to take away Carr’s “vile anti-GRT and antisemitic materials”.
The Traveller Motion, a charity supporting the traveller group within the UK, stated: “That is really disturbing and goes means past humour.”
In a tweet, the charity stated: “We’d like all of your help in calling this out #StopTravellerHate @StopFundingHate.”
The charity has launched a petition to Netflix calling for the “removing of the segments of His Darkish Materials which celebrates the Romani genocide”.
HuffPost UK has contacted Carr’s reps for remark.